New York · Nonprofit
LEGAL OUTREACH INC
LEGAL OUTREACH INC (New York) receives grants from 65 organizations whose IRS filings report $7,666,969 to it, the largest being PINKERTON FOUNDATION ($1,375,000). 39 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $2.7M
- Funders on record
- 65
- Grants received
- $7.7M
- Net assets
- $5.5M
What Legal Outreach Inc does
Mission
Legal outreach is a college preparatory organization that uses instruction in law as a catalyst for inspiring and motivating youth from under-resourced communities in new york city to strive for academic excellence and higher education. The organization changes the educational trajectory of urban youth by implementing a series of legal and educational programs that foster vision, develop skills, instill values and enhance confidence among program participants.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
In 2024-25, legal outreach began the school year with 226 students enrolled in its college bound program (70 freshmen, 64 sophomores, 53 juniors, and 39 seniors). Within the college bound program, we continue to implement our school-year academic advisory program, writing program, con law debate program, mentoring program, professional training program, professional exposure program, parent support program, college admissions program, transition-to-college, and civic engagement and social justice program. We finished the 2024-25 school year with 216 students in the program (65 freshmen, 56 sophomores, 52 juniors, and 39 seniors). Our retention rate for the year was thus 96%. We successfully implemented all elements of the multi-faceted program including the: 1) academic support center; 2) study and life skills program; 3) mentoring program; 4) constitutional law debate program; 5) parent support program; 6) saturday writing program; 7) college admissions program, 8) transition to college program, 9) college support program for our college freshmen. Summer college bound programs, all of which were done virtually, included 10) summer internships for rising 10th grade students; 11)…
$2,396,413 spentof which $149,429 as grants$39,625 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $2,396,413.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2022 to 2023, from $5.6M to $8.6M (+55%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Government-grant reliance: 2017 2% · 2018 0% · 2019 1% · 2020 2% · 2021 9% · 2022 8% · 2023 7% · 2024 1%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Chief executive
Tamika Edwards
Executive director
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 9 funders to 32 funders, grant income rose $391k → $1.3M.
16 of 65 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 18% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of LEGAL OUTREACH INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 65 funders by total. Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
LEGAL OUTREACH INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 18% of grant income, and it takes 7 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 7 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 61% · 2018 41% · 2019 22% · 2020 23% · 2021 29% · 2022 22% · 2023 20% — diversifying over time.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How long its funders stay
60% of LEGAL OUTREACH INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 60% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
74% of LEGAL OUTREACH INC's grant income comes from New York funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.4M arriving through sponsors registered in 10 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Organizations like LEGAL OUTREACH INC
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In New York
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
76% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
95%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for LEGAL OUTREACH INC: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds LEGAL OUTREACH INC?
- LEGAL OUTREACH INC (New York) receives grants from 65 organizations whose IRS filings report $7,666,969 to it, the largest being PINKERTON FOUNDATION ($1,375,000). 39 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does LEGAL OUTREACH INC have?
- IRS filings report 65 organizations giving $7,666,969 in grants to LEGAL OUTREACH INC, 39 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of LEGAL OUTREACH INC?
- PINKERTON FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $1,375,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like LEGAL OUTREACH INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New York. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 65 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing